just catching up was written last week jan 18

i wrote the whole thing and then couldn't get it to post and thought i had deleted it somehow. cory, the man found it last night somewhere in cyber space when he was installing the church's family indexing thing and posted it for me. talk about a tender mercy--nothing like taking time out to blog and then losing it--very discouraging for computer idiots.

i'm officially on "the diet." it's not bad if you are willing to eat equal portions of beans and beano. still waiting for my system to adjust. i miss salt to the point that i am about ready to take up hazel's habit of licking meagan after she has gone to the gym and worked out. meagan's safe i can lick my own arm, but i swear i taste less salty than i used to--do you run out of salt if you quit eating it?

good news is i got another quilt top done and ready to mail off to be quilted but this cute little lady in oregon. i also got 3 more cut out. i realized after they were all cut out that one of the pieces of fabric hadn't been preshrunk so i had to wash it--it did shrink and unravel a little at the edges and so i had to cut it down and now will have to cut all the pieces down so they will work. you know if your brain doesn't work something else has to.

i went down to sheridan prison last sunday to visit a friend of mine. it was an amazing day. he is so alone and having a rough go of it. moral of the story is be completely honest about everything. he made a lot of money, but at what price and now he has nothing. i got back to church and found out that rob had one of his worst days. he tried so hard to get to church and couldn't. you read about it on their web sight maybe. anyway i went to visit and drop off his favorite movie "12 angry men." i told him about scott (the guy in prison) they are both about the same age, cute wives, 5 kids, sucessful, (or used to be) and they both taught seminary for us for a couple of years. i told rob and patti as miserable as this experience is to go thru if i had to make a choice i would be them. i think of the fasting, prayers and support they have had from their family, the ward, their friends it has been amazing and they recognize it and are so grateful. scott is so alone. i am your mom/aunt le anne so i will moralize--satan entices you to do something wrong, gets you out on the end of a limb and when the tree goes down and you get caught he leaves you hanging. he delights in it because you are now miserable just like he is--wahoo!!! nothing could be more apparent than the contrast between these two men's lives. God does have us go thru some incredibly hard things but never alone always with His help. He will help scott too, but consequences are a bite!!!

i'm going in to wake up benny so we can watch our favorite movie "love comes softly" together on the dvd player in my bed before i have to take josh and rob's aunt kathy to the airport. its the only movie she will sit thru and she will watch it over and over again. i miss all my grandkids. the pictures were great mindi. i'm glad you could spend time together.

looking forward to the wedding almost as much as cortney and rodger j/k! thanks for all the open invitations to come stay at your homes. your are all such good kids.

love le anne

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